Muutoksesta

"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be cleaning you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from the beyond."

Rumi

Kauneudesta

"Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jaksamisesta

"Meillä on ystävyyden sähkönvalkea lokki, siivilleen
korkeuksiin kohoava ja siellä liitelevä.
Ja vielä meillä on jonkin vanhan rakkaan
kappaleen tummat sydämeniskut, aina sellaisina
hetkinä kun omamme luulevat loppuvansa."

Ote Jouni Inkalan runosta Sanat kappaleeseen ilman säveltä.

Nationalismista

"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. Then the third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one earth."

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabian Astronaut.

Vastoinkäymisistä

"A could does not put out the sun."

En tiedä mistä tämän ensi kerran nappasin...

Kysymyksistä

"Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?
Have I endured loneliness with grace?"

Mary Oliverin runosta The Gardener.

Elämästä

"The life that I could still live, I should 
live, and the thoughts that I could still
think, I should think."

Carl G. Jung kirjassa The Red Book.

Voimasta

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And as we let our one light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."


Our Deepest Fear Marianne Williamsonin kirjasta Return to Love

Matkanteosta

"He knows not where he's going
for the ocean will decide -
it's not the destination...
...it's the glory of the ride."

Edward Monktonin kirjasta Zen Dog.

Luovuudesta

“Just remember, if you don’t write your stories, no one else will,” he said. “Bring something into the world that wasn’t there before. People like to say it’s better to give than to receive. I say it’s better to create than to consume.” 

- Josh Donellanin haastattelu bongattu netistä täällä. Julkaistu paperisena The Gold Coast Bulletinissa.

Musiikista

"If you bring positive music into the world, one way or another you are helping make good things happen."

- Neil Finn Peppermint-lehdessä (#20 summer 2013).

Ystävyydestä

"But she smiled, he saw, only out of politeness, and he felt a flash of jealousy as do friends when they lose another to love, especially those who have understood that friendship is enough, steadier, healthier, easier on the heart. Something that always added and never took away."

-Kiran Desain kirjasta The Inheritance of Loss.

Valosta

"Alkoi talvi. Se kesti monta vuotta, moneen vuoteen ei aurinko paistanut huoneisiimme. Sen talven aikana valo hajosi, ja minun oli itse liimattava palaset yhteen. Kun nyt näen auringon, käännän kasvoni sitä kohti ja sanon: älä lähde enää."

- Ranya ElRamlyn kirjasta Auringon asema.

Mahtailevasta hiljaisuudesta

"My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive."

- ote Jorge Luis Borgesin runosta Boast of Quietness.